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Page Two SIGNAL NEWS Tuesday, January 26, 1954
The Editor Speaks
There is a saying that “all
things come to those who wait.”
I t’s a nice saying but the inquiry
is “how long do we have to wait?”
Perhaps an explanation is due. In
reading some of the back issues
of the Signal News from previous
years, we discovered that in some
catagories, we, the students of St.
Mary’s, haven’t changed a bit, and
that’s not good.
Three years ago there was a
plea from the student government
president to please act a little
more like ladies and a little less
like elephants bouncing into the
dining room when going down the
steps for morning, noon, and eve­ning
meals. Usually we are very
considerate about noise, but there
is something about the delectable
smell of food that obliterates all
else. The mad dash to tables as
if it were “ first come, first serv­ed,”
is still evident today at every
meal excluding breakfast.
Then, there was the same trou­ble
with social functions as now
besets us. People were very will­ing
to attend dances and parties
but when it came time to deco­rate,
oddly enough everyone was
permanently occupied with sundry
other things. At cleaning up time,
the dorm resembled a city of the
ancient cliff dwellers, with every
person firmly imbedded in her
room, only to emerge when the
few unlucky persons who marched
to the smoker with retinues of
brooms, mops and similar objects
had disappeared from sight.
To our credit we have the posi­tive
assurance that we keep the
smoker cleaner than the girls did
in some years previous.
These things may seem trivial,
but small as they may appear,
they represent a necessary side of
our education. One that may come
naturally, or one which takes
work, but in any event, one which
will benefit us all.
Seminary
(Continued from Page One)
and students returned from their
Christmas vacation of 1924, the
main building burned to the
ground. When the new building
was dedicated, Mrs. Cecilia Coad
Roberts laid the cornerstone. She
was the little girl of five who was
one of the students that first
year; the oldest living Alumna at
that time.
Within one month barracks and
equipment had been secured and
school began once more, four
weeks later. Funds were provided
by the Legislature for the new
building and the rooms were fur­nished
by friends of the school or
loyal Marylanders as a tribute or
memorial. The front of the new
building, which is the one we are
now occupying, was built exactly
like the former one. The interior
has been changed, as the earlier
building contained no library or
sitting rooms as we know them
today.
In 1928 the girls could arrive
here from Baltimore via the B.&V.
Steamer. They could leave at 4:30
P.M. and land at Brome’s Wharf
at 4 :00 A.M. Their suitcases
would be brought from the wharf
to the school in a wheelbarrow.
Washington was a little more
modern, in that the girls could
arrive by bus or leave at tha Elec­tric
Railroad Station at 4:10 P.M.
and arrive at Leonardtown at 7:00
P.M. Judging from the transpor­tation
system it isn’t likely that
the young ladies went home when­ever
they felt like it.
Many of the rules of that era
seem ridiculous to us today. For
instance: “Students leave the
grounds only when accompanied
by a chaperon and visit only with
the permission o f parents. All
packages are subject to examina­tion
and delivery at the discretion
of the principal. Borrowing clothes
is strictly forbidden. No chafing
dishes, teakettles, alcohol, or elec­trical
appliances are permitted in
the pupils’ rooms—special ar­rangements
for pressing and for
curling hair may be made through
the principal. Only books and
magazines approved by the princi­pal
are allowed in the pupils’ pos­session.”
A deposit of two dollars
was required on table silver. The
regulation costume for physical
education was white middies,
black bloomers, black lisle stock­ings,
and high white tennis shoes.
They must have looked charming!
The music hall had been built
in 1907 but it wasn’t until 1940
that the gymnasium was erected.
The faculty house is a very recent
addition, having been completed
in 1951. Before this the teachers
stayed in the dorm. Our pier hasn’t
been here very long either. The old
wharf used to be in back of the
chemistry lab building. Steps still
remain on the hillside there.
On the academic side, the Sem­inary
started the Junior College
Department in 1927 with just
MARIANNE SLINGLUFF
One of the busiest Freshmen
around the S. M. S. has been chos­en
January girl of the month.
She’s a girl who is simply bursting
out oil over with personality. Of
course, it’s Marianne Slingluff.
Marianne comes to us from
Frederick Sasscer High School,
where she was active in the Acap-pella
Choir, Student Court, and
club work. Being active in 4-H and
Methodist Youth Fellowship also
took up a great amount of her
spare time. Thus far this year
she has proven to be both a good
leader and follower by being active
as Vice-President of her class, and
as a member of House Committee,
Assembly Committee, Choir, Sex­tet,
Current Events Club, F.N.A.,
French Club, A. A., and a par­ticipant
in intramurals.
Among her various hobbies are
sewing, music - piano in particular
- - just ask her to bang out “Down
Yonder” for you, and last but not
lea s t -----men.
Right now Marianne’s plans for
the future are indefinite, but we
wish this swell gal lots of luck in
whatever she may attempt.
one student. In 1931, it was a fully
accredited first class, first group
high school. It was accredited with
the Maryland State Department
of Education as a four year junior
college in 1940. Full accreditation
with the Middle States was denied
on the basis of a need for increased
enrollment.
Even the new classroom building
is being built to fit in with the
traditions of S. M. S. The brick­work
will match that in the State
House. It is a phase of Georgian
architecture, but it is Williams-
(Continued On Page 3)
SMS Attacks Exams
I ’m studying to be a psycholo­gist.
People can be pretty inter­esting
subjects. You just have to
wait around and catch them at
the most opportune moment.
When you find that time—they’ll
perform like puppets.
Recently I was out searching
for some interesting subjects to
psychoanalyze. I dropped by the
Seminary for a while and, luck
being with me, I couldn’t have
picked a better day. It was exam
time and the English teacher in­vited
me in to survey her class.
I took a seat in the corner and
here is just what happened. The
girls started coming in. Everyone
had a different attitude toward
the exam and that attitude stood
out just as plainly as if it were
written on her face.
There’s the unwise lass who
parties all night before the exam,
then comes down half dead and
declares that she has a mental
block!
And the class “brain.” She sits
with a smug look on her face. The
exam starts and she stays about
fifteen minutes, while the rest
think and write and think and
write for hours. And what do they
get? C’s!
Then there’s the girl who is
most superstitious. She walks into
the room backwards and avoids
the thirteenth seat from the win­dow.
She is loaded down with
good luck charms. A rabbit’s foot,
four leaf clovers in her hair. She
picks a seat in the back row and
promptly tacks a horse shoe on
the wall over her head.
Oh, I forgot to mention “Effi­cient
Elizabeth.” She has already
been here two hours—sure to be
on time. And what is in that box
by her desk? Gracious, eight pen­cils
and fourteen erasers, and
three hundred sheets of paper—
just in case she needs them.
And there’s my poor friend who
is still cramming (books, papers,
and notes cover the area for ten
yards all around her). After hours
of study she has become so con­fused
that she thinks “Et tu,
Brutus?” were MacBeth’s last
words.
“Nervous Nancy” stumbles to
her seat. Graciously, she starts to
bite her fingers—the nails have
long since disappeared.
To heck with being a psycholo­gist.
I ’m moving to Africa. Do the
cannibals take exams?
Signal INews Staff
PAT TOWNSEND : JANUARY EDITOR
RUTH GOLDEN LaRUE MIKESELL
DIANE GREEN
ELLEN HARKNESS
ANNE WATSON
MISS TRUXAL, Advisor

Page Two SIGNAL NEWS Tuesday, January 26, 1954
The Editor Speaks
There is a saying that “all
things come to those who wait.”
I t’s a nice saying but the inquiry
is “how long do we have to wait?”
Perhaps an explanation is due. In
reading some of the back issues
of the Signal News from previous
years, we discovered that in some
catagories, we, the students of St.
Mary’s, haven’t changed a bit, and
that’s not good.
Three years ago there was a
plea from the student government
president to please act a little
more like ladies and a little less
like elephants bouncing into the
dining room when going down the
steps for morning, noon, and eve­ning
meals. Usually we are very
considerate about noise, but there
is something about the delectable
smell of food that obliterates all
else. The mad dash to tables as
if it were “ first come, first serv­ed,”
is still evident today at every
meal excluding breakfast.
Then, there was the same trou­ble
with social functions as now
besets us. People were very will­ing
to attend dances and parties
but when it came time to deco­rate,
oddly enough everyone was
permanently occupied with sundry
other things. At cleaning up time,
the dorm resembled a city of the
ancient cliff dwellers, with every
person firmly imbedded in her
room, only to emerge when the
few unlucky persons who marched
to the smoker with retinues of
brooms, mops and similar objects
had disappeared from sight.
To our credit we have the posi­tive
assurance that we keep the
smoker cleaner than the girls did
in some years previous.
These things may seem trivial,
but small as they may appear,
they represent a necessary side of
our education. One that may come
naturally, or one which takes
work, but in any event, one which
will benefit us all.
Seminary
(Continued from Page One)
and students returned from their
Christmas vacation of 1924, the
main building burned to the
ground. When the new building
was dedicated, Mrs. Cecilia Coad
Roberts laid the cornerstone. She
was the little girl of five who was
one of the students that first
year; the oldest living Alumna at
that time.
Within one month barracks and
equipment had been secured and
school began once more, four
weeks later. Funds were provided
by the Legislature for the new
building and the rooms were fur­nished
by friends of the school or
loyal Marylanders as a tribute or
memorial. The front of the new
building, which is the one we are
now occupying, was built exactly
like the former one. The interior
has been changed, as the earlier
building contained no library or
sitting rooms as we know them
today.
In 1928 the girls could arrive
here from Baltimore via the B.&V.
Steamer. They could leave at 4:30
P.M. and land at Brome’s Wharf
at 4 :00 A.M. Their suitcases
would be brought from the wharf
to the school in a wheelbarrow.
Washington was a little more
modern, in that the girls could
arrive by bus or leave at tha Elec­tric
Railroad Station at 4:10 P.M.
and arrive at Leonardtown at 7:00
P.M. Judging from the transpor­tation
system it isn’t likely that
the young ladies went home when­ever
they felt like it.
Many of the rules of that era
seem ridiculous to us today. For
instance: “Students leave the
grounds only when accompanied
by a chaperon and visit only with
the permission o f parents. All
packages are subject to examina­tion
and delivery at the discretion
of the principal. Borrowing clothes
is strictly forbidden. No chafing
dishes, teakettles, alcohol, or elec­trical
appliances are permitted in
the pupils’ rooms—special ar­rangements
for pressing and for
curling hair may be made through
the principal. Only books and
magazines approved by the princi­pal
are allowed in the pupils’ pos­session.”
A deposit of two dollars
was required on table silver. The
regulation costume for physical
education was white middies,
black bloomers, black lisle stock­ings,
and high white tennis shoes.
They must have looked charming!
The music hall had been built
in 1907 but it wasn’t until 1940
that the gymnasium was erected.
The faculty house is a very recent
addition, having been completed
in 1951. Before this the teachers
stayed in the dorm. Our pier hasn’t
been here very long either. The old
wharf used to be in back of the
chemistry lab building. Steps still
remain on the hillside there.
On the academic side, the Sem­inary
started the Junior College
Department in 1927 with just
MARIANNE SLINGLUFF
One of the busiest Freshmen
around the S. M. S. has been chos­en
January girl of the month.
She’s a girl who is simply bursting
out oil over with personality. Of
course, it’s Marianne Slingluff.
Marianne comes to us from
Frederick Sasscer High School,
where she was active in the Acap-pella
Choir, Student Court, and
club work. Being active in 4-H and
Methodist Youth Fellowship also
took up a great amount of her
spare time. Thus far this year
she has proven to be both a good
leader and follower by being active
as Vice-President of her class, and
as a member of House Committee,
Assembly Committee, Choir, Sex­tet,
Current Events Club, F.N.A.,
French Club, A. A., and a par­ticipant
in intramurals.
Among her various hobbies are
sewing, music - piano in particular
- - just ask her to bang out “Down
Yonder” for you, and last but not
lea s t -----men.
Right now Marianne’s plans for
the future are indefinite, but we
wish this swell gal lots of luck in
whatever she may attempt.
one student. In 1931, it was a fully
accredited first class, first group
high school. It was accredited with
the Maryland State Department
of Education as a four year junior
college in 1940. Full accreditation
with the Middle States was denied
on the basis of a need for increased
enrollment.
Even the new classroom building
is being built to fit in with the
traditions of S. M. S. The brick­work
will match that in the State
House. It is a phase of Georgian
architecture, but it is Williams-
(Continued On Page 3)
SMS Attacks Exams
I ’m studying to be a psycholo­gist.
People can be pretty inter­esting
subjects. You just have to
wait around and catch them at
the most opportune moment.
When you find that time—they’ll
perform like puppets.
Recently I was out searching
for some interesting subjects to
psychoanalyze. I dropped by the
Seminary for a while and, luck
being with me, I couldn’t have
picked a better day. It was exam
time and the English teacher in­vited
me in to survey her class.
I took a seat in the corner and
here is just what happened. The
girls started coming in. Everyone
had a different attitude toward
the exam and that attitude stood
out just as plainly as if it were
written on her face.
There’s the unwise lass who
parties all night before the exam,
then comes down half dead and
declares that she has a mental
block!
And the class “brain.” She sits
with a smug look on her face. The
exam starts and she stays about
fifteen minutes, while the rest
think and write and think and
write for hours. And what do they
get? C’s!
Then there’s the girl who is
most superstitious. She walks into
the room backwards and avoids
the thirteenth seat from the win­dow.
She is loaded down with
good luck charms. A rabbit’s foot,
four leaf clovers in her hair. She
picks a seat in the back row and
promptly tacks a horse shoe on
the wall over her head.
Oh, I forgot to mention “Effi­cient
Elizabeth.” She has already
been here two hours—sure to be
on time. And what is in that box
by her desk? Gracious, eight pen­cils
and fourteen erasers, and
three hundred sheets of paper—
just in case she needs them.
And there’s my poor friend who
is still cramming (books, papers,
and notes cover the area for ten
yards all around her). After hours
of study she has become so con­fused
that she thinks “Et tu,
Brutus?” were MacBeth’s last
words.
“Nervous Nancy” stumbles to
her seat. Graciously, she starts to
bite her fingers—the nails have
long since disappeared.
To heck with being a psycholo­gist.
I ’m moving to Africa. Do the
cannibals take exams?
Signal INews Staff
PAT TOWNSEND : JANUARY EDITOR
RUTH GOLDEN LaRUE MIKESELL
DIANE GREEN
ELLEN HARKNESS
ANNE WATSON
MISS TRUXAL, Advisor